Almost 11 years since last update. I take it this story will never be finished, so disappointing.

I hope you have not given up on this story. I found it to be quite unique and fairly well written.

This story's Severus Snape shows how insular he is when it comes to Potions - which makes absolutely NO sense when it comes to Mastery - of ANY subject - least of all Potions - or any Mastery, for that matter. (Kinsfire's "With a Little Help From My Friends" shows Narcissa - who is darn near a Potions Mistress herself - which even that story's Severus Snape admits! - at least a voracious reader of non-UK Potions texts despite being forced to NOT go the rest of the way down the Potions Mastery track by her marriage - why would a PRACTICING Potions Master/Mistress NOT emulate that? Horace Slughorn certainly did - and he taught both of them. (I do when it comes to IT - and not merely because I still do IT.)

The surmise about Muggles and Squibs is, in fact, based on this very lesson - in canon - as there is NO wand-waving involved in Potions. The same surmise is expanded on in "Life Sucks, Then You Die" from the same author of this fanfic - and leads to a rather ranty review - from me - over Magical Britain's treatment of both Squibs AND magically-aware Muggles.

This story was just as brilliant as the first! You spent so much world and character building that I wish you could have finished.

please continue this amazing story

If you are still writing is it possible for you to finish this one? I really would like to read the rest.
Thank you
Chris

Absolutely love this story and its predecessor. So sorry to see it abandoned

It's disappointing that an overall good fic that just got to the parts I was looking forward to is abandoned. It could have definitely used an editor's touch but it was entertaining. No ridiculous bashing, Dumbledore isn't a moustache twirling villain, there's a very distinct stance against underage sex. You have managed to avoid many of the greater and more prevalent errors made in the writing of a Harry Potter fanfic. But it really did stop just as it was getting to the parts I wanted to read about.

The closest to "Mind/Body/Magic" in a non-Watanabe fanfiction is in "White Knight, Grey Queen" and came jointly from the Unspeakables and Muggle SOF (specifically the UK SBS); however, there is nonfiction - whole reams of it - including video - from a wide variety of sources - not merely the West, either. (I'm talking Russian SOF - Spetsnaz - and Japanese National Police - the Kunika.). On THIS cgaper's outcome Severus os right about there being a Black onfluence; however, it is NOT the Black that Severus suspects that is the influencer, but Arcturus. (While Arcturus was known to be alive at this point - he had pretty much vanished from the Magical scene - in canon, he and Harry had never met.) Still, Severus DID eat the crow sandwiches - including he feathers and beaks. Publicly.

To Calmzone1: The bindings on Harry and Clarice were removed (along with the Horcrux in Harry) in their first year at Watanabe; the procedures were also taught to both as part of the Mind/Body/Magic Watanabe tracks in Healing (Clarice) and Defense (all students).

A brilliant story, and now a ‘clffie’. Why ever did you abandon it? Unless of course circumstances, illness or similar occurred. There are only a handful of stories that I have discovered on this website, episode 1 being one of them. Looking at the date of your last update I have to assume that it has been abandoned. Sad!

Very successful chapter in an amazing story.

It has been almost eleven years, and I still love this story.
Thanks for the good times I had while reading it.
And of course - may the muse strike you with inspiration so that we poor souls can read more...

"Can't very well see the stars from inside, can you?"

I've been meaning to ask; given the enchanted ceiling of the Great Hall, why not do it there?